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Quincy  Illinois:  In  the  Heart  of  the 
— Great  Valley. 

(1926) 


LIBRARY  OF  THE 
UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 
AT  URB/^\NA-CFiA,V\PAICN 


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I.E.S. 


QUINCY 
lUINOIS 


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FOREWORD 


UIKCY,  ILLINOIS,  "In  the  Heart  of  the  Great  Valley."  Consider  its  location,  read  its 
history  and  study  its  progress,  and  you  will  know  the  story  of  the  romance  and  adventure 
of  the  Great  Mid-West. 

rp — ^;a|^gK^>**"**!*■ip•■^^■■  The  modern  department  store  stands  where  once  the  Indians  bartered  in  their  crude 

fc-'  ^^^^M-       .......i'^'  I         tepees,  the  busy  factory  manufactures  its  products  where  the  early  settlers  rudely  put  together 

their  simple  wares;  steel  rails  and  roads  of  concrete  follow  the  trails  of  the  first  hardy  explorers, 
and  man  has  fashioned  parks  and  playgrounds  of  the  beauty  spots  along  the  Father  of  Waters 
where  the  hopeful  Mound  Builders  once  buried  their  dead.  Industry,  trade  and  transportation, 
mills,  stores  and  locomotives,  stone,  steel  and  concrete  have  wrought  with  more  imagination 
than  the  slender  weave  of  poetry  or  fiction. 

In  this  story  of  the  magic  of  the  Great-West,  Quincy,  Illinois,  has  a  most  essential  and  most  interesting  chapter. 

This  booklet  presented  by  the  Quincy  Chamber  of  Commerce  hopes  to  make  Quincyans  themselves  mindful  of  their  blessings 
and  to  help  them  publish  the  facts  to  the  rest  of  the  world. 

Inasmuch  as  pictures  often  tell  a  story  more  vividly  and  more  accurately  than  type,  most  of  this  volume  consists  of  photographs 
of  the  Quincy  of  today.  The  first  section,  "Quincy,  a  City  in  Which  You  Want  to  Live,"  presents  those  factors  of  community  life, 
a  city's  civic,  welfare,  religious,  charitable,  philanthropic  and  recreational  institutions  which  make  Quincy  an  ideal  city  of  homes, 
"America's  Gem  City."  The  second  section  is  devoted  to  the  theme,  "Quincy,  a  City  in  Which  You  Want  to  Work,"  and  presents 
the  city's  institutions  of  industry  and  trade. 

Quincy,  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Mississippi,  proud  of  the  city  that  it  is,  and  more  hopeful  of  the  city  that  it  is  to  be,  is  a  vital 
figure  in  the  romance  of  the  development  of  the  Great  Mid- West.  These  pictures  and  these  facts  may  help  to  tell  the  world  of  Quincy 's 
part  in  this  "wond'rous  story." 


A   Century  of  Civilization 

One  hundred  years  ago  the  Indian  trading  post  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Mississippi  was  undergoing  its  first  transformation  into 
an  abode  of  white  men,  the  beginning  of  the  series  of  changes  which  made  it  the  modern  city  that  it  is  today. 

Father  Marquette,  the  French  missionary,  passing  down  the  great  river  about  July  of  1673,  was  probably  the  first  white  man 
to  look  upon  the  bluffs  where  the  city  of  Quincy  later  was  to  be  located.  General  Zebulon  Pike,  under  a  commission  of  the  United 
States  government  to  locate  forts  along  the  Mississippi  from  St.  Louis  to  the  Falls  of  St.  Anthony,  must  have  tarried  in  the  Indian  and 
trading  village  that  was  located  on  Quincy 's  present  town  site.  In  May  1819,  Willard  Keyes  passed  down  the  river  on  a  raft  of  lumber 
but  did  not  locate  here  at  that  time.  In  1821,  John  Wood  first  visited  the  site  of  Quincy  and  was  so  pleased  with  the  location  that 
he  erected  a  cabin  here,  though  not  at  first  within  the  original  town.  The  first  settlers  were  John  Wood,  Willard  Keyes,  who  returned 
to  the  place  he  had  seen  from  the  river  several  years  before,  Jeremiah  Rose  and  Asa  Tyrer. 


OynNCY'^AMERiGA's  GEM  GiTr 


"In  the  Heart  of  the  Crcut  I  alley 


The  traveler  who  appraiches  Quincy,  whether 
he  be  driven  swiftly  over  the  steel  rails,  whether 
he  come  more  leisurely  on  the  Father  of  Waters  or 
whether  he  drive  his  own  car  on  one  of  the  trans- 
continental  roads  that  pass  through  the  city  sees 
first  of  all  the  graceful  dome  of  the  Adams  county 
court  house,  as  fine  an  example  of  architecture  as 
is  seen  in  any  county  buildinw  of  the  Middle  West. 


His  first  impression  of  Quincy  thus  gained  must 
be  that  of  Stability,  Enlightenment,  Beauty  and 
Progress.  As  he  comes  to  Quincy  this  impression 
will  be  more  firmly  established.  He  will  be  im- 
pressed with  the  Stability  of  its  Business,  the 
Enlightenment  of  its  People,  the  Beauty  of  its 
Parks,  Streets  and  Hemes,  and  the  Progressiveness 
of  Its  Spirit. 


The  Things  That  Really  Mal^e  a  City 

A  city  is  not  properly  measured  by  the  numbers  who  dwell  within  its  boundaries.  A  city  must  have  numbers 
in  order  to  be  impressive — and  thus  Quincy  looks  with  satisfaction  upon  the  growth  of  the  past  several  years.  The 
last  federal  census  in  1920  gave  Quincy's  official  population  as  '5.'5,Q78  The  recent  estimate  based  on  all  the  factors 
in  a  city's  growth  give  the  population  as  more  than  43,000. 

But  the  opportunities  which  a  city  offers  to  make  a  living  and  the  advantages  which  it  presents  to  live  a 
happy  hfe  really  make  it  worth  while.  These  are  offered  by  Quincy  in  abundance.  Those  surroundings  which 
man  needs  to  hve  his  life  richly  and  fully,  which  afford  him  culture  and  pleasure,  and  those  opportunities  which  man 
needs  to  make  him  an  independent  economic  factor  in  life,  which  enables  him  to  support  himself  and  family  and  gather 
a  competence,  all  these  abound  in  this  rich  and  beautiful  city. 

T^^fli^H  THBllEACT  OF  THE  GRE/^ VALLEY  WXi^ 


QUINCY   AT  A  GLANCE 

Outlines  and  Insights 

10  CAT  ED  on  a  picturesque  blutf  overlooking  the  Mis' 
sissippi,  bounded  by  Illinois  and  Missouri  lands,  garden 
spots  of  the  world. 

The  hub  of  a  rich  agricultural,  manufacturing  and  conimer' 
cial  section.     Near  the  center  of  population  of  the  United  States. 

At  the  Junction  of  three  great  states — Illinois,  Iowa  and 
Missouri,  in  the  low  priced  Hydro-Electric  power  zone. 

More  than  40,000  population  in  a  trade  territory  of  325,000 
persons. 

Healthful  climate  with  no  extremes  of  heat  or  cold. 

Many  miles  of  parks  noted  throughout  the  country  for  their 
n.itural  beauty,  many  of  them  overlooking  the  Father  of  Waters. 

City  of  attractive  homes,  with  65  percent  of  its  citizens 
owners  of  homes. 

Excellent  school  system,  its  high  school,  twelve  fine  grade 
schools,  seven  parochial  schools,  Quincy  College,  Gem  City 
Business  College,  two  Academies,  Schools  of  Music  and  Art, 
Chaddock  Boys"  School,  etc.;  placing  Qumcy  in  the  front  rank  in 
educational  facilities. 

Thirty  churches  of  all  denominations. 

Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  and  Boy  Scouts. 

Three  service  clubs,  Rotary,  Lions  and  Kiwanis,  several 
women's  business,  social  and  literary  clubs,  fraternal  and  social 
activities. 

Many  places  of  amusement  of  high  character.  Commodious 
theaters,  picture  houses,  amusement  parks,  bathing  pools,  ball 
parks,  four  golf  links.  Hunting,  fishing,  boating,  camping  and 
picnic  groves;  summer  resorts  in  every  direction. 

Many  miles  of  new  paving.  Entrances  to  city  all  well 
paved. 

City-owned  water  system  furnishing  water  of  celebrated 
purity. 


Completely  motorized  fire  department,  said  by  state  fire 
marshal  to  be  one  of  the  best  equipped  and  best  manned  in  Illinois. 

Largest  industrial  center  in  the  Mississippi  Valley,  west  of 
the  Chicago  group  and  North  of  St.  Louis  group. 

Banks  among  the  best  in  the  country.  Bank  clearings 
last  year  $74,000,000.  Stability  and  ample  resources  of  banks 
assure  to  business  protection  and  progress. 

Retail  stores  in  Quincy  metropolitan  in  every  respect. 
With  trade  areas  covering  a  radius  of  75  to  100  miles,  giving  more 
than  4(K),000  potential  customers. 

Impressive  group  of  civic  and  public  buildings,  including  the 
State  Soldiers'  fer'  Sailors'  Home,  Armory,  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  The  Elks"  Home,  Eagles,  Knights  of  Columbus, 
Public  Library,  Post  Office,  City  Hall,  Court  House  and  a  mag- 
nificent home  for  the  Western  Catholic  Union. 

State  Poultry  farms  and  egg  laying  contest  withm  the  city. 

Transportation  facilities  ample,  by  rail,  river  and  motor 
roads.     Hard  roads  leading  from  the  city  in  every  direction. 

Widely  known  jobbing  center  for  hardwares,  groceries, 
notions,  stoves  and  dyes. 

Two  daily  newspapers  with  combined  circulation  of  more 
than  thirty-five  thousand. 

Practically  no  indebtedness. 

Per  capita  wealth  $1,689.11;  per  capita  debt  $4.61. 

Tax  rate  in  1924  lowest  of  any  city  in  Illinois  of  more  than 
10,000  population. 

Baseball  club  in  Three-I  league. 

Manufacturing  interests  in  highest  rank  in  the  country. 
Quincy  made  products  being  sold  throughout  the  United  States, 
Canada,  Mexico  and  foreign  countries. 

Beautiful  homes,  well  paved,  clean  and  well  lighted  streets, 
religious,  educational  and  social  activities,  extensive  industrial 
plants,  combined  with  natural  resources,  make  Quincy  truly  the 
Gem  City  of  the  West. 


C  QVINCY-Ameriga^s  gem  City 


A  City  In  Which  To  ''Live' 

THF.  "open  spaces"  are  not  nej^lcctcJ  in  this  city  in  the  land  where  the  west  begins. 
The  typically  American  city  is  that  which  is  large  enough  to  have  its  own  factories,  stores  and  trans- 
portation to  establish  it  as  an  economic  unit  making  a  place  for  itself  in  the  nation's  trade,  which  is  progressive 
and  intellectual  enough  to  afford  its  citizens  the  advantages  of  education,  art  and  cultural  intercourse,  but  which  is 
still  not  so  heavily  burdened  with  its  bigness  that  it  has  forgot  that  it  is  as  essential  .that  its  citizens  "live"  as  it 
is  that  they  make  a  living. 

Quincy  is  proud  of  its  parks  and  is  eager  that  the  world  should  know  of  them  and  is  even  more  desirous  that 
the  people  of  other  cities  may  see  them. 

Quincy  has  a  park  system  of  nearly  300  acres,  but  who  can  speak  of  parks  in  the  terms  of  figures?  Parks  arc 
known  for  the  joy  that  they  bring,  the  vision  that  they  give,  the  influence  that  they  have  upon  a  city's  people. 
Quincy's  parks  are  her  people's  proudest  possessions.  They  stretch  in  long,  sinuous,  alluring  drives  along  the  bluffs 
overlooking  the  river.  They  follow  creeks  and  brooks  and  eventually  spread  out  in  broad  acres  of  breathing  spaces 
and  playgrounds  for  old  and  young.  The  accompanying  photographs  may  give  some  idea  of  the  beauty  of  the  north 
and  the  south  chains  of  park  drives,  of  the  magnificent  distances  ot  South  Park  and  of  the  panorama  of  greensward 
and  stream,  mounds  and  valleys  which  the  Quincy  parks  afford. 

In  Indian  Mounds  park  is  the  "Mounds  Plunge",  the  municipal  swimming  pool,  sanitary  and  modern  in 
every  respect,  a  project  inaugurated  by  the  Quincy  Rotary  club,  a  place  of  joy  for  hundreds  every  day  in  the  summer 
season.  Just  north  of  the  city  is  the  Illinois  State  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  which  is  a  home  for  the  men  of  this 
state  who  served  their  nations  in  time  of  war,  and  their  wives,  and,  while  it  is  a  home  for  these  veterans,  it  is  essen- 
tially a  link  in  Quincy's  splendid  park  system. 

The  Quincy  Boulevard  and  Park  Association  is  an  organization  of  volunteers  which  manages  the  city's  parks 
with  economy  of  purse  but  with  prodigality  of  vision  and  purpose  for  the  people's  benefit. 

Quite  recently  a  large  industrial  corporation  seeking  a  location  made  a  survey  of  Quincy's  advantages.  While 
it  naturally  was  interested  in  the  things  of  a  material  nature  which  make  this  a  great  city,  it  was  most  impressed  with 
the  many  advantages  which  make  Quincy  a  city  in  which  people  find  living  most  enjoyable. 

Quincy  is  a  city  of  homes.  Wage  earners  in  larger  proportion  here  than  in  most  cities  own  the  dwellings 
in  which  they  and  their  families  Uve.  They  are  industrious  workers  who  establish  themselves  here  and  become 
citizens  of  this  community,  interested  in  all  the  things  that  make  this  a  city  in  which  people  want  to  live. 

Quincy  is  a  city  of  parks.  The  parks  belong  to  all  the  people  who  make  use  of  the  drives  and  picnic  grounds, 
swimming  pools  and  golf  Hnks  and  enjoy  them  to  the  fullest. 

Quincy  is  a  city  of  wide,  beautiful  and  well-paved  streets.  Due  to  a  spirit  of  progressiveness  in  recent  years, 
the  property  owners  have  had  many  of  the  streets  re-paved  so  that  smooth  thoroughfares  are  found  in  even  the  out- 
lying sections  of  the  city. 

Quincy  is  a  city  of  good  schools  and  many  churches.  Its  system  of  public  and  parochial  schools  and  colleges 
offers  educational  advantages  which  appeal  to  all  classes  of  citizens. 

Quincy  is  a  city  of  wholesome  amusements.  It  has  good  theaters  "offering  the  best  of  shows  at  all  times  ot 
the  year.  It  has  a  franchise  and  a  baseball  team  in  the  Three-I  league  affording  good  games  of  the  great  national 
sport.  It  also  has  many  semi'pro  teams  which  have  loyal  followers.  In  the  fall  there  are  football  games  every 
Saturday  and  there  is  golf  on  four  courses  at  all  seasons. 

Situated  on  the  Mississippi  river,  Quincy  offers  opportunities  not  presented  to  inland  towns.  The  river  is 
always  alluring  with  opportunities  for  boating,  fishing  and  pleasant  outings.  Delightful  drives  abound  m  this 
picturesque  section  of  the  country. 

In  all  the  many  ways  in  which  life  is  so  abundantly  W'orth  while,  Quincy  is  indeed  a  "City  in  Which  to  Live  . 


\^S^  IN  THB  HEART  OF  THE  GRBAT  VALLEY  i:\t\t7i 


^'Quincy"— "Adams"— "John"— and  a  Word 
About  the  "Illini" 

THE  first  message  of  John  Quincy  Adams  as  president  was 
received  on  the  day  of  his  inauguration,  March  4,  1825,  the 
day  that  the  county  seat  of  the  newly  estabhshed  county 
was  located  and,  in  honor  of  the  president,  the  county  was  named 
"Adams",  the  city,  "Quincy",  and  the  public  square  in  the  heart 
of  the  city,  "John's  Square".  The  county  and  city  names  have 
remained  but  the  plat  of  ground  is  now  known  as  "Washington 
park"  and  is  still  one  of  the  features  of  the  business  section  of  Quincy 
best  remembered  by  visitors.  The  act  establishing  a  separate  county 
of  what  later  became  Adams  county  was  approved  by  the  legislature, 
January  13,  1825. 

A  century  of  progress  has  wrought  the  changes  from  the  simple 
settlement  of  those  few  courageous  pioneers  to  the  city  of  Quincy, 
county  of  Adams,  which  you  see  portrayed  in  this  booklet  today. 

It  is  said  that  the  French  missionaries  first  met  a  certain  dis- 
tinguished tribe  of  red  men  on  the  waters  of  the  Mississippi  not  far 
from  Quincy.  These  original  Americans,  because  of  special  traits 
which  won  them  honor  and  distinction,  were  known  as  the  "Illini", 
a  word  which  has  been  variously  translated  as,  "the  men  courageous", 
"the  men  strong  and  true",  or  merely  as  "the  men". 

The  name  must  have  been  the  inspiration  to  those  men  of 
courage  who  established  the  settlement  nearby  and  to  those  men 
strong  and  true  who  builded  the  modern  city  of  industry  and  trade. 

Quincy,  although  it  is  located  on  the  very  western  edge  of  the 
state  has  always  been  an  important  factor  in  the  commercial  and 
political  affairs  of  Illinois.  It  has  furnished  to  the  state  governors, 
senators  and  judges  of  the  supreme  court.  It  was  the  scene  of  one 
of  those  history  making  debates  between  Abraham  Lincoln,  who 
often  practiced  in  the  courts  of  this  county,  and  Stephen  A.  Douglas, 
who  presided  in  the  courts  here  before  he  became  United  States 
senator  and  a  national  figure.  Quincy  today  has  in  Riverview  park 
a  monument  to  George  Rogers  Clark  erected  by  the  state  of  Illinois 
portraying  the  great  soldier  in  this  most  westerly  piece  of  land  in 
Illinois,  surveying  the  large  and  fertile  country  which  his  vision  and 
courage  won  for  the  American  cause. 


Public  Buildings 


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J73S?^?Zl^d  IN  THB  HEART  OF  THE  GREAT  VALLEyM 


QVINCY-Aheriga's  Gem  Girrl 


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Quincy  's  Powerful  Asset     lis  Schools 

ORTUNATE  is  the  boy  or  girl  who  lives  in  Quincy,  or 
whose  parents  have  chosen  the  schools  of  this  city. 

Quincy  has  a  complete  educational  system  for  the  youth  in 
its  public  and  private  schools,  beginning  with  the  kindergarten 
and  carrying  the  student  through  the  grade  schools  and  high 
school  into  the  academy  and  college. 

Quincy  has  twelve  public  grade  schools,  every  building 
modern,  as  the  result  of  a  program  of  rebuilding  the  grade  school 
plant.  It  has  a  High  school  of  high  standing  and  of  recognized 
scholarship  but  the  intelligent  citizens  of  Quincy  realize  that  its 
next  big  educational  need  is  a  new  and  thoroughly  modern  high 
school  building. 

Quincy's  school  enrollment  is  4cS99  in  the  public  and  1502 
m  the  parochial  schools.  The  value  of  the  public  school  buildings 
is  $4,300,000,  and  the  annual  budget  for  public  school  purposes 
is  $509,690. 

In  addition  to  the  public  schools,  Quincy  has  several  paro' 
chial  schools,  the  Chaddock  School  for  Boys,  a  school  of  the 
Methodist  denomination,  Notre  Dame  for  girls  and  Quincy 
College  for  boys,  an  academy  and  a  college  conducted  by  the 
Catholic  church,  and  the  Gem  City  Business  College,  America's 
best  known  commercial  school. 

The  schools  of  Quincy  bring  to  this  city  many  families  who 
are  eager  that  their  children  shall  have  the  best  that  modern 
educational  systems  have  to  offer.  Quincy  is  fortunate  in  that 
the  citizens  have  always  been  ready  to  endorse  every  project  for 
the  welfare  of  the  city's  schools  with  the  result  that  the  grade 
schools  are  models  of  present  day  school  architecture.  Con- 
siderations of  party  or  personal  politics  never  arise  in  the 
choosing  of  officials  so  that  Quincy's  schools  are  administered 
according  to  the  highest  professional  standards. 


[  QVINCY-America^s  gem  Girr  3 


t  tayiNCY-AMgRicA^s  GEM  Cirr 


Hmmmt;  heart  of  the  great  valley  i^^jy^^^slJ 


QVINCY- America's  qem  Girr 


Quincy's  Hope  For  The  Future — Its  Youth 

Ql'INCY  takes  no  chances  on  allowing  its  most  valuable  resources  to  be  neglected. 
The  first  consideration  of  a  modern  city  should  be  toward  conserving  for  the  future,  the  energy,  the 
intellect,  the  body,  the  character  and  the  possibilities  of  its  youth. 

Every  agency  for  the  making  of  clean  and  upright  citizens  is  working  steadily  and  efficiently  in  Quincy.  The 
hoys  have  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  with  trained  leaders  for  its  classes,  exercises,  and  sports.  The  Boys  Scouts  are  organized 
through  a  central  council  with  a  specially  trained  executive  in  charge.  Both  organizations  have  their  own  camps 
for  their  boys  during  the  summer  season.  Oehlman  park,  a  choice  camping  spot  north  of  Quincy,  belongs  to  the 
Scouts. 

The  girls  have  a  particularly  active  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  with  a  camp  at  Wyaconda  near  La  Grange,  Mo.  The 
Young  Women's  Christian  Home  and  the  St.  Joseph's  Home  for  Girls  offer  homes  for  girls  working  in  Quincy,  with 
assured  surroundings  of  safety,  cleanliness  and  comfort. 

The  Cheerful  Home,  with  its  day  nursery,  caring  for  children  of  parents  who  are  employed  during  the  day, 
and  its  visiting  nurse  giving  bedside  care  to  the  needy,  are  vital  agencies  of  welfare  in  the  community's  life. 

Religion     Profession  and  Practice 

Quincy  has  always  been  known  as  a  city  of  churches  which  carry  on  aggressive  and  practical  religious  programs. 
Churches  of  practically  every  denomination  are  represented  here,  Protestant,  Catholic  and  Jewish.  Several  years 
ago  a  religious  census  was  taken  showing  that  Quincy  was  a  city  of  church  going  people.  Important  religious  activi- 
ties of  all  denominations  followed  the  taking  of  this  census  in  which  all  churches  co-operated.  Quincy  is  the  See 
city  of  the  Quincy  diocese  of  the  Episcopal  church. 

The  photographs  which  follow  indicate  the  substantial  architecture  of  the  churches  of  Quincy  and  give  an 
indication  of  the  sturdy  religious  life  that  abounds  here. 

The  practical  application  of  a  community's  religious  professions  is  manifested  nowhere  better  than  in  the 
several  institutions  of  mercy  and  relief.  Two  orphanages,  two  hospitals,  three  old  people's  homes  and  a  tuberculosis 
sanatorium  are  among  the  many  and  vital  institutions  that  measure  a  city's  devotion  to  the  true  religion  of  service 
to  fellowman  as  well  as  to  God. 

The  Homes  In  Which  Quincyans  "Live" 

Above  all,  however,  Quincy  is  a  city  of  homes.  It  is  this  fact  which  makes  Quincy  the  "City  in  Which  to 
Live".  Whether  the  pretty  parks,  the  shaded  streets,  the  modern  schools,  the  fine  churches  and  the  many  institu- 
tions of  recreation  and  service  have  brought  the  homes,  or  whether  the  homes  are  the  cause  and  all  the  other  ad- 
vantages have  followed,  may  be  a  question  for  debate,  but  the  fact  remains  that  the  homes  are  here  and  all  the  things 
are  here  to  make  these  homes  livable  and  lovable.  Statistics  show  that  no  other  city  has  among  its  dwellers  a  greater 
proportion  of  home  owners  than  Quincy.  Once  a  man  comes  to  Quincy  to  live  he  sets  out  to  build  or  buy  a  home 
and  become  a  factor  in  the  development  of  the  community. 

The  fact  that  so  many  Quincy  residents  own  their  own  homes  has  created  a  civic  spirit  which  means  interest 
in  paved  streets  and  all  other  public  improvements  which  maintain  the  value  of  property  and  which  make  a  house  a 
home  in  the  truest  sense  of  the  word. 

The  pictures  of  residences  shown  in  this  volume  are  typical  of  the  houses  which  Quincy  has  been  erecting 
during  the  last  few  years  in  its  greatest  period  of  home  building. 


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OIUIANIZATIONS,  sociiil,  fraternal  and  recreational,  naturally  abound 
'n  .1  city  where  life  is  made  so  much  worth  while  as  it  is  in  Quincy. 
The  central  business  organization  of  the  city  is  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
housed  in  a  well  equipped  home  of  its  own  in  the  heart  of  the  city.  Three 
men's  service  clubs.  Rotary,  Lions  and  Kiwanis,  and  two  women's  service 
clubs,  the  Women's  Luncheon  club  and  the  Business  Women's  club,  beside 
many  organizations  of  a  distinctly  social  or  literary  nature,  serve  Quincy's  in- 
terests faithfully. 

Quincy  has  all  of  the  bodies  which  furnish  Masonic  interest  in  a  city  of 
its  size.  It  has  four  lodges  of  ancient  craft  Masonry,  a  chapter  of  Royal  Arch, 
a  Commandery  of  Knights  Templars,  a  Consistory  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  and  two 
chapters  of  the  Eastern  Star.  All  of  them  are  housed  in  the  beautiful  temple 
shown  on  this  page. 

The  Eagles  have  a  home  splendidly  equipped  for  all  purposes  of  this  fraternal 
and  social  order.  The  Knights  of  Columbus  have  a  large  and  commodious 
home  in  the  heart  of  the  city  which  furnishes  the  headquarters  for  the  activities 
of  this  large  organization.  The  Moose  have  a  home  recently  rebuilt  to  accom- 
modate this  growing  society.  The  Elks  have  recently  built  a  home  which,  in 
addition  to  being  the  headquarters  of  the  B.  P.  O.  E.  is  also  the  down-town  club 
of  Quincyans,  offering  a  splendid  grill  as  well  as  all  facilities  for  a  pleasant  social 
club. 

Quincys  clubs  have  been  "service  clubs"  in  the  truest  sense  of  the  word. 
Monuments  to  the  endeavors  of  such  clubs  as  Rotary,  Kiwanis  and  Lions  are 
the  swimming  pool  in  Indian  Mounds  park,  the  shelter  house  in  South  park,  the 
electrolier  system  to  the  union  station,  the  work  in  all  boys'  activities  including 
the  "Knot  Hole  Gang"  of  youngsters  at  the  Three-I  league  games,  and  the 
interest  in  the  city's  various  philanthropic  institutions. 

The  Women's  Luncheon  and  Business  Women's  clubs  have  taken  especial 
interest  m  the  splendidly  humanitarian  work  of  assisting  crippled  children. 

Quincy  plays  golf  on  the  links  of  four  clubs,  the  Country  club.  Spring 
Lake  club  three  miles  north  of  the  city,  the  Cedar  Crest  club  at  Walton  Heights, 
and  the  Indian  Trail  club  at  South  Park,  the  site  of  the  municipal  links. 

The  North  and  South  Side  Boat  clubs  and  the  Power  Boat  club  keep  up 
an  interest  in  water  sports,  and  the  Quincy  Motor  club  cares  for  the  interests 
of  the  thousands  of  motorists. 

The  social  life  in  Quincy  is  cared  for  in  a  manner  that  will  appeal  to  every 
person  who  believes  in  the  wholesome  contacts  ot  man  with  his  fellows. 


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OF  her  geographical  location,  Quincy  has  little  to  complain.    She  is  near  enough  to  the  Atlantic  seaboard  to 
make  travel  easy  to  the  great  financial  and  manufacturing  centers  of  the  East  and  is  about  on  a  parity  with 
Chicago  and  St.  Louis  for  Pacific  coast  connections.  Forty-eight  hours  of  travel  from  Quincy  \k\\\  take  one 
to  cither  northern  or  southern  border  of  the  United  States. 

This  survey  is  of  railway  travel.  In  the  motor  world  Quincy  is  within  easy  reach  of  either  coast.  Her  hard 
road  connections  with  the  East  have  been  established  for  some  time  and  progress  on  the  Missouri  and  Kansas  highway 
systems  add  two  important  links  to  lines  of  communication  west. 

Quincy  has  enjoyed  the  distinction  of  being  one  of  the  largest  contributors  per  capita  of  freight  on  the  lines 
of  either  of  her  railroads. 

Waterway  facilities  are  promised  with  the  development  of  the  Lakes-to-Gulf  proiect  which  will  mean 
thorough  reincarnation  of  traffic  on  the  upper  river. 

Climatically,  Quincy  is  far  enough  south  to  escape  the  rigorous  winters  of  Northern  Illinois  and  yet  within 
the  salubrious  area  of  the  temperate  zone 

St.  Louis  and  Chicago  are  but  a  few  hours  away,  Omaha,  Kansas  City  and  Indianapolis  but  a  little  farther 
removed.    It  is  ten  hours  from  Chicago  by  motor  over  the  new  state  highway  system  of  hard-surfaced  roads. 

Quincy  is  neither  East  nor  West,  North  nor  South. 

She  is  in  the  center  of  a  great  empire  in  itself,  the  Mississippi  Valley,  a  production  :onc  without  which  the 
United  States  could  hardly  exist. 


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Quincy  At  Work, 


QriNCYS  inJustry,  personified,  is  Jitficult  to  picture. 
It  might  be  said  that  this  workman   spends  the  major  portion  of  his  time  erecting  pumps  and  com- 
piessois.    building  poultry  and  agricultural  products,  casting  and  mounting  stoves,  making  metal  wheels, 
compounding   dyes,   building  freight   and   passenger  elevators,   making   showcases  and    store    fixtures   and    pro- 
ducing strawboard  and  varieties  of  chip. 

But  that  does  not  occupy  his  entire  time.  He  finds  spare  moments  during  his  working  day  to  print  and  bind 
Kxiks,  to  compound  remedies  and  mixtures  for  live  stock,  to  grind  the  farmer's  wheat  and  corn,  to  put  the  dairyman's 
milk  through  a  process  where  it  is  practically  free  of  bacteria,  to  make  etchings,  paper  boxes,  soda  water,  refrigerating 
systems,  cornices,  files,  ice,  coach  and  wagon  bodies,  shirts,  overalls,  shoes,  and  women's  garments. 

That  is  about  his  working  day. 

Mr.  Quincy  as  he  works  has  two  natural  bents.  He  is  first  of  all  a  skilled  workman  and  shows  his  greatest 
proficiency  in  the  metal  trades.     He  is  also  a  fairly  good  hand  at  working  with  wood. 

His  "job  "  is  highly  diversified.  He  is  a  jack  of  all  trades  but  master  of  several  of  them.  He  has  two  general 
workshops,  one  in  the  old  district  along  the  lower  river  front  where  railroads  have  had  sidings  for  fifty  years  and  the 
other  at  Walton  Heights  where  he  can  now  get  the  same  facilities,  a  distance  of  nearly  three  miles  separating  the  two. 

He  works  with  the  machine  and  uses  hydro-power  to  keep  it  going.  He  sends  his  products  all  over  the  world, 
using  both  rail  and  water  transportation  with  the  motor  truck  for  short  hauls.  He  knows  there  is  competition  in  a 
hundred  other  centers  but  some  of  his  products  have  met  a  competing  field  for  more  than  half  a  century  and  are  still 
the  best  to  be  had.  He  makes  more  of  several  articles  than  any  other  workman  in  America.  His  products  advertise 
him. 

This  Quincy  workman  occupies  9,500  homes  of  which  65  per  cent  are  owned  by  occupants.  He  is  6  per  cent 
of  foreign  birth  and  3.4  per  cent  of  his  numbers  are  colored.  He  supports  four  building  and  loan  associations  with 
about  3,500  members  through  his  thrift,  representing  the  number  of  ambitious  workmen  who  are  striving  for  home 
ownership.     He  has  not  supported  strikes  nor  labor  disturbances  since  1920. 

He  has  an  unlimited  supply  of  electric  power  to  drive  his  machine.  He  has  good  wholesome  water  and 
plenty  of  it  for  industrial  and  domestic  uses.     He  averages  a  daily  consumption  of  700  cubic  feet  of  gas  in  his  home. 

Versatile  artisans  and  mechanics  of  this  sort  make  a  first-class  reservoir  from  which  new  industries  locating 
in  Quincy  may  readily  draw  their  forces.  Almost  anything  may  be  manufactured  in  Quincy  so  far  as  skilled  labor 
is  a  factor  in  its  production.     Structural  steel  weighing  tons  shades  down  to  a  tiny  phonograph  needle. 

An  industrial  survey  completed  in  the  spring  of  1925  shows  24  concerns  that  employ  more  than  50  workers. 
The  same  survey  lists  107  major  industries.  Industrial  locations  outside  of  the  corporate  limits  have  the  advantage 
of  city  water,  gas,  electric  power  and  fire  protection.  Good  acreage  is  available  at  prices  ranging  from  $500  to  $1000 
an  acre.  These  locations  have  railway  side-track  facilities.  The  tax  rate  outside  of  the  corporate  limits  is  a  little 
more  than  half  the  city  rate. 

The  population  of  Quincy's  trading  zone  (75  miles)  is  estimated  from  census  figures  at  325,685. 


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THIS  Quincy  workman  is  noted  for  his  thrift.     He  has  furnished  the  groundwork  for  deposits  of  24  million 
dollars  in  the  banks.     He  is  ninety  per  cent  native  born  and  has  a  passion  for  home  owning.     He  is  progressive 
and  thorough  in  his  tasks.     He  is  a  patron  of  schools  and  education,  loves  parks  and  recreation,  supports  good 
retail  stores  and  draws  to  his  market  place  the  trade  of  a  supporting  territory  round  about. 

From  its  geographical  position  in  Illinois,  Quincy  has  been  denied  some  of  the  advantages  of  communication 
enjoyed  by  other  cities.  It  has  built  no  interurbans  and  its  railroads  are  confined  to  two  systems  that  embrace  seven 
separately  chartered  lines.  It  has  already  received  a  fair  share  of  the  hard  road  building  of  the  state  and  much  more 
is  promised.  Yet  it  has  earned  the  name  with  traffic  experts  of  being  the  largest  producer  and  forwarder  of  freight 
per  capita  of  any  city  in  Illinois,  which  speaks  well  of  the  volume  of  its  manufactured  products. 

Quincy  has  the  advantages  of  other  manufacturing  cities  with  few  of  their  drawbacks.  It  looks  forward  to 
the  day  when  waterway  freight  routes  are  again  in  use  and  when  the  Mississippi  river  is  once  more  a  freight  carrier. 
It  has  witnessed  a  tremendous  building  of  new  homes  in  the  last  four  years  and  the  assertion  of  a  new  industrial  and 
mercantile  spirit.     It  re-states  the  "I  will"  motto  of  other  cities  and  makes  it  "I  am". 

The  corner-stone  of  Quincy 's  prosperity  and  progress  has  been  her  diversified  industries  of  national  renown. 

Quincy 's  position  industrially  is  highly  advantageous.  It  is  located  almost  midway  between  Chicago  and 
St.  Louis  on  a  line  drawn  north  and  south  and  midway  between  Indianapolis  and  Kansas  City  on  a  line  drawn  east 
and  west.  The  factory  production  of  Quincy  covers  about  five  hundred  different  articles  varying  from  the  tiny 
phonographic  needle  to  huge  fabricated  steel  columns  that  form  supports  for  large  buildings  and  bridges.  Quincy 
is  located  a  considerable  distance  from  tide-water  and  some  distance  from  both  iron  and  ore  fields  but  transportation 
rates  have  taken  care  of  the  ore  problem  and  coal  is  no  longer  a  necessity  for  power.  Quincy 's  industries  use  "white 
coal"  produced  at  a  power  dam  forty  miles  away  and  distributed  as  far  south  as  St.  Louis. 

The  industrial  survey  of  Quincy  shows  these  facts; 

Capital  in  industries __   .     $39,030,320 

Annual  payroll $10,400,436 

Value  of  output $56,786,512 

Number  of  Employes 11,430 

Skilled  workers 4,387 

The  fixed  commercial  radius  of  Quincy  covers  a  distance  of  fifty  miles.  A  secondary  territory  extends  twenty 
miles  farther  in  each  direction.  Some  concerns  job  Quincy  products  a  distance  of  200  miles.  Within  the  fifty  mile 
radius  are  204  towns  and  villages  that  look  to  Quincy  as  their  trading  and  retail  center.  These  towns  and  villages 
have  a  population  of  115,000. 

A  recent  railway  survey  disclosed  that  Quincy  contributed  38,087  box  car  loads  of  freight  in  a  single  year  to 
her  railroads  for  shipment  to  other  points. 

Building  progress  is  best  summarized  in  yearly  periods  commencing  in  1QI3  when  52  new  buildings  worth 
$184,000  were  constructed  and  increasing  to  a  peak  in  1923  when  290  buildings  were  erected  at  a  cost  of  $1,304,940. 
The  building  total  for  1924  includes  an  office  and  fraternal  building  which  will  cost  $500,000  and  be  ten  stories  in 
height.     In  buildings  public  and  private  Quincy  has  invested  more  than  .'•ix  million  dollars  in  the  last  ten  years. 

In  1920  there  were  31  building  permits  issued  in  Quincy.  in  1924  there  were  330  with  an  estimated  value 
of  the  building  product  of  $1,500,000. 

Postal  receipts  grew  from  $252,443  to  $340,218  in  ten  years  time. 


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Economical  Government 


QUINCY  enjoys  the  name  of  being  conservative  in  expenditures  for  public  works,  eager  to  make  her  city 
dollar  go  as  far  as  it  will  in  meeting  expenses.  The  result  is  that  bureau  of  census  figures  on  the  cost  of 
^government  in  all  leading  Illinois  cities  show  Quincy  ranking  fourth  in  this  respect.  Her  total  city  ex' 
ponditurcs  in  1922  reduced  to  a  per  capita  basis  were  $31.31.  Her  per  capita  property  tax  was  $22.58.  Her  bonded 
indebtedness  per  capita  was  but  $5.91,  the  best  showing  in  this  respect  of  any  of  the  cities  compared.  The  assessed 
valuation  of  her  real  property  was  $18,325,907  in  1922. 

In  public  school  building  improvements  Quincy  has  been  quietly  making  good  headway.  There  is  an  out' 
standini'  bonded  indebtedness  on  four  completed  grade  school  buildings  and  one  just  completed  to  be  added  to  the 
list.  Improvements  of  two  other  grade  school  buildings  are  to  be  made  when  the  whole  school  plant  as  covered  by 
grade  schools  will  be  modern.  There  will  follow  a  concentration  of  effort  toward  erecting  a  new  Quincy  High  school, 
for  several  years  an  educational  need  of  the  city. 

In  street  improvement  work  Quincy  has  made  rapid  strides  in  recent  years.  The  average  annual  improve- 
ment for  several  years  past  has  been  about  five  miles  and  plans  for  a  program  which  will  combine  three  or  four  years 
work  in  one  are  under  consideration.  Most  of  the  street  improvement  work  is  of  a  durable  character.  A  crushed 
stone  supply  produced  in  local  quarries  and  river  sand  and  gravel  simplify  the  material  man's  street  improvement 
problem  in  Quincy.  Many  of  the  older  buildings  rest  on  foundations  of  limestone  rock  taken  from  croppings  along 
the  river.  The  newer  structures  rest  on  beds  of  concrete  in  which  this  same  limestone  is  a  component  and  necessary 
part.     Material  is  the  same;  the  processes  alone  differ. 

Street  paving  costs  have  been  materially  lowered  in  Quincy  since  large  programs  of  street  improvments  be- 
came the  rule.  When  contracts  are  to  be  awarded  on  these  improvements  a  dozen  or  more  firms  are  interested 
bidders.     This  open  competition  has  tended  to  reduce  costs. 

Quincy  today  presents  the  picture  of  a  community  well  satisfied  with  her  paving  investments  and  asking 
for  larger  programs  each  year. 

Industrial  expansion  has  not  lagged.  The  future  holds  several  important  factory  projects  which  mean  not 
only  greatly  increased  volume  of  manufactured  products  but  the  opening  up  of  an  entirely  new  industrial  district, 
advantageously  located.  Widely  increased  use  of  electric  power  makes  these  locations  less  objectionable  than  in 
the  days  of  black  coal. 

In  industrial  freight  rates  Quincy  is  advantageously  situated.  Her  factories  gain  the  117  per  cent  basis  of 
the  New  York-Chicago  rate  which  is  on  all  fours  with  tariffs  given  manufacturing  concerns  in  St.  Louis. 

To  the  west  and  southwest  Quincy  also  shares  the  same  freight  rates  as  St.  Louis.  Shipments  to  the  north 
are  covered  by  the  same  freight  rates  as  those  given  Chicago,  without  preference.  In  addition  Quincy  manufacturers 
enjoy  many  special  commodity  rates  which  place  them  within  a  basis  of  competition  with  such  large  competing  points 
as  Chicago  and  St.  Louis.  River  navigation  which  promises  intensive  development  within  a  few  years  will  afford 
direct  communication  to  all  ports  between  New  Orleans  and  St.  Paul. 

An  effort  is  under  way  to  place  Quincy  on  the  same  rate  basis  with  Chicago  m  commodities  shipped  to  the 
southeast  coast,  where  the  Ohio  river  is  now  the  dividing  line. 

Quincy "s  industrial  growth  and  stability  has  been  due  in  a  great  degree  to  her  favorable  situation  in  the 
Middle  West  and  the  advantages  given  her  in  freight  rate  treatment. 


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Quincy's  Greatest  Strength  In  Its  Banks 

FINANCIAL  strcnjJth  and  solidity  has  been  one  of  the  salient 
points  in  the  development  of  Quincy.     There  are  few  Illinois 

cities  which  can  match  her  banks  and  their  resources. 

The  eight  banks  of  Quincy  in  their  statements  of  October  1924 
reported  total  resources  of  $30,154,447  and  total  deposits  of  $23,- 
480,391.74,  which  are  increased  by  totals  for  the  close  of  that  year. 

These  deposit  totals  have  grown  more  than  a  million  dollars 
in  two  years  time  as  indicated  by  the  published  statements. 

This  growth  has  been  continuous  and  uninterrupted  except  for 
short  intervals.  Owing  to  the  fact  that  theie  have  been  consolida- 
tions and  incorporation  as  state  banks  in  the  interim  a  detailed  com- 
parison  of  the  banking  institutions  of  the  city  at  the  present  time 
with  their  condition  ten  years  ago  is  not  possible.  Taking  three 
of  the  eight  banks  which  had  the  same  organization  in  1914  as  now 
and  using  the  published  statement  of  their  condition,  the  following 
comparison  may  be  made; 

Resources,  September  1914,  $9,322,695.  Resources,  October 
1924,  $17,817,478. 

Deposits,  September  1914,  $6,672,689.  Deposits  October  1924, 
$13,253,442. 

These  figures  show  a  gain  of  almost  one  hundred  per  cent  in 
deposits  and  resources  in  the  three  banking  institutions  used  for  the 
comparison. 

In  1916  when  Quincy  was  a  contender  for  the  proposed  govern- 
ment armor  plate  plant  it  was  modestly  stated  that  the  city  banks 
had  averaged  for  the  previous  five  years  15  million  dollars  in  deposits. 
Since  1920  and  for  the  five  year  period  starting  with  1919  this 
deposit  average  has  been  well  above  the  20  million  mark. 

Of  the  eight  Quincy  banks  one  is  organized  under  national 
lanking  laws  and  seven  are  state  banks.  The  banks  are  all  members 
of  the  central  clearing-house  association. 


Industries   Up-to-Date 

PERHAPS  the  most  modern  of  Quincy's  manufacturing 
plants  is  that  of  the  Monroe  Drug  company  shown  here- 
with.    It  was  completed  a  little  more  than  a  year  ago 
at  a  cost  of  about  $200,000  and  is  fire-proof  and  modern  in 
every  detail. 

The  company  for  several  years  occupied  cramped  quarters 
near  the  site  of  its  new  building  and  the  expansion  was  brought 
about  through  business  needs.  The  Monroe  company  is  one 
of  the  largest  exporting  concerns  of  Quincy.  It  maintains  a 
large  force  of  salesmen  and  sells  direct  to  retail  druggists.  Its 
dyes  and  drug  supplies  go  to  Cuba,  South  and  Central  America 
in  addition  to  continental  markets. 

The  Pure  Ice  company  and  the  Quincy  Coal  company 
plants  are  institutions  that  have  been  developed  through  local 
business  energy. 

The  fourth  illustration  is  the  filtration  plant  of  the  City 
waterworks,  a  successful  venture  in  municipal  ownership  and 
operation.  Formerly  in  private  hands  the  concern  was  as- 
sumed by  the  city  which  rapidly  liquidated  the  indebtedness 
and  now  owns  and  operates  its  water  supply  system. 

The  filtration  plant  is  but  one  feature  of  the  water  sys- 
tem. Taken  from  the  river  the  water  is  treated  in  the  nearby 
plant  and  then  carried  to  a  large  reservoir  from  which  point 
it  is  distributed  to  consumers.  An  adequate  supply  is  practi- 
cally assured  for  all  time  and  expansion  needs  are  met  from  time 
to  time. 

Quincy's  water  works  system  is  one  of  the  few  thoroughly 
successful  municipal  ownership  ventures  in  the  country. 

With  a  fine  yearly  show  of  earnings  for  the  city  the  water- 
works plant  is  also  making  from  year  to  year  the  extensions 
and  betterments  in  the  service  that  is  demanded  of  modern 
utilities.  In  the  plant  and  its  accomplishments  citizens  take 
a  justifiable  pride. 


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Our  Modern  Fire  Department 

Ql'INCY'S  fire  department  is  motorized  throufjhout  and  was 
one  of  the  first  in  the  state  to  achieve  that  distinction. 
By  means  of  a  small  bond  issue  authorized  by  the 
voters  in  1919  a  fund  was  created  for  the  erection  of  a  Central 
Fire  station  and  also  to  complete  the  motorization  of  the  department 
upon  which  a  good  start  had  been  made. 

The  motor  apparatus  was  purchased  first  because  conditions 
regarding  the  site  for  the  central  fire  station  had  not  been  settled 
but  in  1923  it  was  determined  to  go  ahead  with  the  building  plan 
and  city  property  at  Ninth  and  Vermont  selected  for  the  site. 
Only  excavation  work  was  done  that  year,  however,  leaving  the 
principal  construction  for  the  1924  season.  The  building  has  now 
been  completed  and  gives  firemen  and  their  machines  fine  head- 
quarters on  the  edge  of  the  business  section.  The  new  building 
contains  a  hose  tower,  modern  quarters  for  the  firemen  and  all  other 
accessories. 

Into  it  the  personnel  and  equipment  of  the  Nos.  1,  2  and  3 
stations  have  been  moved  and  the  old  and  outgrown  stations  shown 
in  the  illustration  will  be  devoted  to  other  purposes. 

The  Central  Fire  station  represents  an  outlay  of  about  .$75,000 
exclusive  of  the  site. 

Quincys  bonded  indebtedness  is  so  small  as  to  be  almost  in- 
significant.  One  item  covers  a  waterworks  reservoir  improvement 
which  IS  slightly  more  than  $200,000,  recently  authorized,  a  second, 
school  building  bonds  $127,500  in  amount  and  a  third,  the  amount 
necessary  for  the  building  of  the  Central  Fire  station. 

Of  these  three  building  debts  the  fire  station  bonds  are  about 
half  of  them  retired.  Almost  any  necessary  building  improvement 
in  Quincy  invites  the  approval  of  voters.  The  fire  station  bond 
issue  campaign  is  recalled  for  the  harmony  it  disclosed  among  voters 
and  tax-payers  on  the  necessity  of  modern  improvements  and  the 
best  of  fire  fighting  apparatus. 


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Our  Modern  Fire  Department 

FIVE  outlying  fire  stations  are  continuing  to  furnish  fire  pro' 
taction  to  residence  districts  since  the  consolidation  of  the 
three   central    stations    down-town.     These  smaller    stations 
were  built  as  occasion  warranted  and  are  more  modern  in  construction 
than  the  discarded  ones  in  the  business  section. 

Quincy  firemen  have  an  organization  with  high  personnel. 
The  platoon  system  was  adopted  years  ago  and  relieves  much  of  the 
monotony  of  a  fireman's  life. 

The  smaller  stations  shown  in  the  illustration  are  all  complete 
units  in  the  fire  fighting  system  of  the  city.  They  are  located  on 
Delaware  street,  Payson  avenue,  Broadway,  North  Sixth  street  and 
South  Eighteenth  street. 

In  addition  to  the  organized  department  fire  prevention  and 
safety  measures  have  been  city  watchwords.  A  large  state  gathering 
of  underwriters  recently  gave  Quincy  merited  praise  for  her  efforts 
to  keep  down  fire  hazards  and  an  adjustment  of  fire  insurance  rates 
followed. 

Quincy  has  always  been  prominent  in  the  state  firemen's  or- 
ganization and  boasted  some  of  the  best  companies  in  the  days  of 
the  old  hand  pumps.  Steamers  were  discarded  in  the  Quincy 
department  when  the  full  motorization  was  completed. 

Quincy's  organized  fire  department  in  recent  years  acting  with 
the  underwriters'  organization  has  been  instrumental  in  cleaning 
up  many  of  the  fire  hazards.  The  men  of  the  fire  department  today 
are  being  drilled  thoroughly  under  the  tutelage  of  a  special  instructor 
on  handling  modern  situations  that  involve  fighting  fires  in  larger 
buildings. 

Organized  fire  fighting  in  Quincy  has  been  distinguished  civic 
work.  The  motor  apparatus  all  bears  names  of  men  prominent  in 
municipal  affairs. 


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MORE  incubators  are  made  in  Quincy  than  in  any  other  city 
in  the  world.     About  one  million  and  a  half  dollars  passes 
through  its  banks  each  year  for  poultry  and  poultry  products. 
The  state  egg  laying  contest  is  known  the  country  over. 

In  this  egg  laying  contest  more  than  six  hundred  head  of  poultry 
are  cared  for  in  the  most  modern  manner  and  the  egg  producing  ability 
of  each  fowl  is  recorded  daily.  The  results  are  published  monthly  in 
all  the  poultry  journals  of  America.  Bulletins  are  distributed  to  all 
who  write  for  them. 

The  hens  in  this  contest  come  from  practically  every  state  in  the 
union.  Moving  pictures  have  been  taken  of  the  contest  and  there  are 
a  do:en  separate  sets  of  films  in  use  every  night  in  some  part  of  the 
United  States 

Poultry  journals  with  a  circulation  of  more  than  a  million  copies 
have  followed  the  results  of  this  Quincy  contest  and  given  the  city 
generous  advertising. 

Hardly  a  day  passes  that  does  not  find  interested  visitors  from 
distant  parts  of  the  United  States  at  this  egg  laying  contest. 

In  Its  gradual  expansion  and  development  is  indicated  the  growing 
importance  also  of  Quincy  as  a  poultry  center. 

The  illustrations  show  the  Reliable  Incubator  and  Brooder  com- 
pany plant,  a  poultry  supply  company,  the  Moorman  plant,  producing 
mineral  mixtures  for  hogs  and  stock,  the  J.  D.  Warren  company,  making 
hardware  store  fixtures  and  supplies  and  the  North  Star  Strawboard 
mill,  one  of  the  two  large  paper  mills  of  Quincy. 

In  addition  to  its  Quincy  plant  at  Walton  Heights,  the  Moorman 
company  owns  and  maintains  an  experimental  farm  some  seven  or  eight 
miles  from  the  city,  easily  accessible  by  hard  road,  where  complete  data 
is  compiled  and  charted  on  the  growth  of  hogs  under  different  methods 
of  treatment.  This  scientific  study  is  in  line  with  the  large  and  grow- 
ing live  stock  interests  ot  the  county. 


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Our  Diversified  Interests 

DIVERSIFIED  manufacturing  interests  are  an  important  factor 
in  Quincy's  industrial  prosperity.     There  is  never  a  time  when 
one  industry  is  on  reduced  time  that  others  are  not  producing 
on  a  healthy  basis  and  the  result  is  a  lack  of  utter  prostration  which 
has  brought  temporary  disaster  to  so  many  communities. 

The  bulkiest  articles  that  require  huge  cranes  to  load  them  and 
structural  steel  that  must  have  machine-handling  is  one  end  of  her 
manufacturing  range.  The  other  is  the  small  article  that  can  be  crated 
and  handled  by  express. 

The  illustration  gives  an  idea  of  this  range  of  manufacturing 
interests.  The  Robert  Gair  company  produces  paper  products  and 
consumes  annually  hundreds  of  tons  of  straw.  It  is  located  on  the  river 
front  where  an  abundance  of  water  may  be  had  for  its  purposes. 

The  Gardner  Governor  company  is  a  type  of  the  plants,  of  which 
Quincy  has  many,  that  originated  in  a  small  way  and  have  grown  to 
enormous  proportions.  It  was  once  in  a  down-town  location  with 
limited  space  and  facilities.  It  has  now  grown  into  a  commodious 
plant  on  the  south  river  front  and  has  entered  extensively  the  field  of 
manufacturing  oil  pumps.  Other  products  are  air  compressors  and 
engine  governors. 

The  North  Star  Egg  case  company  makes  a  product  that  is  a 
necessity  for  the  poultry  trade.  Into  its  carriers  go  millions  of  eggs 
each  year  and  the  rough  material  is  manufactured  in  the  city. 

The  market  for  Quincy-made  products  is  literally  the  world  itself. 

A  great  many  of  the  larger  industries  of  Quincy  are  located  along 
or  near  the  river  front  where  a  commercial  supply  of  water  is  easily 
obtained  and  also  where  freight  for  river  barge  line  shipments  may  be 
produced  at  minimum  expense.  A  survey  of  Quincy's  industrial  field 
several  years  ago  to  learn  what  freight  might  be  originated  here  yielded 
highly  satisfactory  results  and  confirmed  the  reputation  Quincy  has  in 
railroad  circles  of  being  one  of  the  best  freight  points  in  the  Middle 
West. 


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Quincy  in  addition  ta  the  central  district  down-town. 

One  is  in  the  south  part  of  the  city  and  the  other  on  East  Broad- 
way. The  illustrations  show  two  of  the  fine  retail  stores  on  State 
street  in  one  of  these  districts.  The  third  illustration  shows  the 
modernizing  trend  in  the  down-town  district.  The  store  is  that  of 
Best  Brothers  a  plumbing  and  heating  concern. 

The  merchants  of  the  city  support  three  sound  trade  associations 
having  their  centers  in  the  main  retail  portion  and  the  two  smaller 
outlying  districts.  Ail  of  these  associations  make  highway  improve- 
ment the  major  feature  of  their  work. 

During  the  last  few  years  arterial  highways  leading  into  the  city 
which  are  not  covered  in  the  state  highway  program  have  witnessed 
notable  efforts  at  improvement  aided  in  part  by  county  appropriations. 

Organization  work  among  these  retailers"  associations  is  now  at 
top  speed.  Trade  days  and  special  selling  events  among  the  Quincy 
merchants  now  meet  united  support  and  full  cooperation.  The  rapid 
and  continuous  extension  of  retail  trade  territory  into  Western  Illinois 
and  Northeastern  Missouri  has  been  the  result  of  this  organization 
effort. 

Long  known  among  her  sister  cities  as  a  first-class  jobbing  and 
wholesale  city,  Quincy  is  fast  swinging  into  leadership  among  Illinois 
cities  as  one  of  the  best  retail  centers  in  the  state. 

Retail  business  of  the  city  shares  the  character  of  larger  jobbing 
lines  in  being  substantial  and  amply  financed. 

Street  improvements  in  recent  years  have  contributed  much  to 
advance  retail  trade  interests  in  Quincy.  Five  miles  a  year  has  been 
an  average  street  paving  program  for  several  years  past. 


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Letting  the  World  Know 

UINCY'S  telephone  exchange  building  is  unique  in  that  it 
occupies  a  stately  residence  on  a  commanding  hill  a  short 
distance  from  the  business  section  of  the  city. 

This  exchange  is  the  pulse  of  the  telephone  business  of  mid-western 
Illinois  and  is  fitted  with  club  and  recreation  rooms  for  the  employes 
and  houses  the  offices  of  the  Bell  company  in  Quincy  as  well  as  taking 
care  of  the  wire  facilities  necessary.  The  building  has  recently  been 
enlarged  by  an  addition,  costing  $40,000. 

Poster  advertising  is  another  facility  radiated  from  Quincy  as  the 
hub.  An  illustration  on  this  page  shows  the  headquarters  of  the 
Busby  service  and  a  sample  of  the  highway  displays  through  which  they 
command  the  patronage  of  local  and  foreign  concerns. 

The  third  illustration  on  the  page  gives  an  idea  of  the  stability  of 
the  battery  and  auto  electric  service  in  Quincy.  The  building  is  that 
of  the  Abbott  Electric  company  occupying  a  location  on  the  edge  of 
the  business  section  of  the  city.  Quincy  has  witnessed  the  growth  of 
eighteen  different  battery  and  electric  concerns  in  the  last  ten  years 
to  proportions  indicated  by  the  fine  new  building  of  the  Abbott  com- 
pany. 

All  of  the  telephone  wires  in  Quincy's  business  district  are  earned 
in  conduits  underground  and  the  company  has  established  a  fire  alarm 
and  police  call  system  as  an  incident  to  its  franchise  privileges. 

In  percentages  of  telephone  users  to  her  population  Quincy  is  one 
of  the  leading  cities  in  the  state  and  toll  wires  of  the  company  carry 
daily  a  load  of  traffic  that  is  indicative  of  the  importance  as  a  business 
center. 

Both  Western  Union  and  Postal  maintain  downtown  offices  in 
Quincy  and  news  wires  with  the  outside  world  are  operating  sixteen 
out  of  the  twenty-four  hours  of  each  working  day.  In  its  wire  facilities 
Quincy  is  the  center  of  a  large  Illinois  and  Missouri  territory.  In- 
creasing radio  use  has  brought  local  business  opportunities  for  several 
concerns. 


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THE  whole  of  the  United  States  is  the  market  for  Quincy's  stove 
plants.     Originally  intended  for  coal  and  wood  burners  these 
plants  have  now  widened  their  manufacturing  range  to  include 
gas  stoves  and  combinations  that  will  answer  either  purpose. 

One  of  the  plants  shown  in  the  illustration  supports  150  families 
and  another  gives  employment  to  the  wagC'earners  of  a  hundred  families. 
About  a  thousand  families  are  dependent  upon  the  stove  manufacturing 
industry  and  its  allied  trades  in  Quincy  for  support  and  stoves  are  linked 
with  the  earliest  manufacturing  history  of  the  city. 

One  fair-sized  Quincy  plant  reports  a  gross  payroll  of  $200,000  a 
year.  A  conservative  estimate  would  be  a  million  dollars  or  more  paid 
out  to  stove  plant  workers  in  Quincy  for  a  single  year. 

This  manufacturing  field  is  highly  competitive.  There  are  about 
500  similar  manufacturing  plants  in  the  entire  country  but  notwith- 
standing expanding  markets  for  stoves  have  been  constantly  found  by 
the  Quincy  plants  in  the  West  and  Southwest. 

The  illustrations  show  four  of  the  stove  plants  of  Quincy,  the 
Channon-Emery  Stove  company,  the  Gem  City  Stove  Manufacturing 
company,  the  Comstock-Castle  Stove  company  and  the  Quincy  Stove 
Manufacturing  company. 

The  plant  of  the  E.xcelsior  Stove  and  Manufacturing  Company 
is  presented  on  another  page  of  this  booklet. 

It  is  largely  around  the  stove  industry  with  its  safe  and  sane 
methods  of  business  life  that  the  manufacturing  progress  of  Quincy 
has  been  developed.  It  is  still  the  largest  star  in  the  manufacturing 
constellation  of  the  Gem  City. 

It  is  the  thorough  apprenticeship  in  the  metal  trades  furnished 
by  the  stove  manufacturing  industry  that  has  enabled  Quincy  to  qualify 
as  an  excellent  location  for  any  concern  requiring  skilled  help  of  this 
sort.  Many  workmen  who  acquired  their  trades  in  Quincy  have  helped 
build  up  industries  in  other  cities  and  many  are  to  be  found  here  in 
allied  trades 


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HE  printing  craft  has  been  highly  developed  in  Quincy  after 
years  of  up-building  and  progress. 


Several  national  publications  which  command  wide  circulation 
have  come  from  the  presses  of  Quincy  printing  firms.  There  is  also 
an  immense  amount  of  catalogue  work  in  connection  with  the  large 
manufacturing  plants.  From  out  of  the  city  the  printing  concerns 
invite  trade  in  a  territory  that  has  approximately  250,000  population 
and  more  or  less  limited  facilities  to  care  for  it.  The  best  grades  of 
printing  done  in  this  territory  bear  the  stamp  of  Quincy  printing 
firms. 

An  allied  craft  which  brings  considerable  volume  also  to 
Quincy "s  printing  concerns  is  book-binding.  This  trade  furnishes 
constant  employment  to  a  large  number  of  workers.  As  one  of  the 
oldest  cities  in  the  old  Military  Tract  Quincy  retains  much  of  the 
prestige  which  was  hers  when  the  first  settlements  were  made  and 
the  fine  and  intelligent  craftsmanship  of  her  pioneers  in  the  printing 
trades  has  not  been  allowed  to  deteriorate.  Printing  and  book  work 
done  in  Quincy  is  sure  to  bear  the  mark  of  quality. 

The  illustrations  show  the  plants  of  the  Howard  Printing 
Company,  the  Jost  and  Kiefer  Printing  Company  and  the  J.  M. 
Irwin  Printing  Company,  three  of  the  city's  substantial  printing 
establishments.  The  Jost  and  Kiefer  and  Irwin  companies  are  also 
interested  in  binding  and  book-work. 

One  of  these  larger  firms  furnishes  more  than  thirty  families 
support  and  the  entire  printing  industry  of  the  city  keeps  several 
hundred  workers  employed. 

The  typothetae  of  Quincy  is  organized  and  holds  regular  meet- 
ings for  the  betterment  of  the  craft. 


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Quincy's  Own  Industries 

IT  IS  rather  singular  for  a  city  of  Quincy's  type  which  once 
enjoyed  a  steady  influx  of  immigrants  that  at  the  present 
time  ninety  percent  of  the  thousands  of  employes  of  her 
manufacturing  and  mechanical  establishments  are  native-born. 

Quincy  has  two  thousand  trained  metal  workers  in  the 
various  trades  and  several  of  her  industries  enter  the  export 
field  extensively. 

The  illustration  shows  the  genesis  of  the  E.xcelsior  Stove 
and  Manufacturing  company  35  years  ago  in  small  quarters, 
now  among  Quincy's  substantial  stove  and  furnace  plants. 
The  present  plant  covers  several  acres  on  the  river  front  with 
excellent  shipping  advantages. 

The  Electric  Wheel  company  is  one  of  the  industrial 
leaders  in  the  other  wing  of  the  city's  industrial  development 
and  has  a  fine  plant  in  the  Walton  Heights  district. 

The  manufacturing  interests  of  Quincy  are  thoroughly 
diversified.  There  are  in  the  neighborhood  of  five  hundred 
different  articles  figuring  in  our  national  welfare  manufactured 
in  the  various  plants. 

Once  known  almost  exclusively  as  the  home  of  the  stove 
industry  in  the  United  States,  Quincy  today  is  an  able  com- 
petitor for  a  dozen  other  articles  of  common  use  with  other 
manufacturing  cities  of  the  country. 

River  shipping  by  the  new  barge  line  is  expected  to  en- 
hance and  widen  the  markets  of  many  Quincy  industries  which 
supply  customers  at  a  distance.  A  great  many  of  the  com- 
modities produced  in  local  factories  are  of  bulky  types  and 
admirably  suited  to  water  or  water  and  rail  shipment  with 
the  installation  of  suitable  loading  facihties  and  terminals. 


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Where  Skilled  Labor  Counts 

HIGH  percentage  of  skilled  labor  of  many  kinds  has  made 
possible  the  wide  diversity  in  the  metal  manufacturing  lines 
of  Quincy. 

Few  cities  have  the  number  and  variety  of  men  employed  in 
the  machine  trades.  It  is  possible  without  going  out  of  the  city  to 
contract  for  specially-designed  machines  of  any  kind,  welding, 
porcelain  enamel  supplies,  brass,  bronze  or  aluminum  castings  and 
almost  anything  needed  in  this  age  of  the  machine. 

Quincy  has  a  well-established  file  works.  In  several  of  her 
machine  shops  auto  cylinders  may  be  re-bored  with  a  high  degree 
of  efEciency.  The  sheet-metal  trade  is  well  represented  in  one  local 
plant  and  several  branch  houses  of  national  concerns. 

At  times  considerable  repair  work  on  railroad  locomotives  has 
been  handled  in  Quincy  machine  shops.  When  the  river  trade 
was  at  its  peak  Quincy  mechanics  often  found  profitable  labor  on 
the  hulls  of  river  carriers  at  the  old  marine  ways. 

It  is  presumed  that  these  allied  metal  trades  followed  the  stove 
industry  to  Quincy  and  soon  established  themselves.  One  of  the 
machine  shops  of  the  city  covers  a  trade  territory  with  a  radius  of 
150  miles  and  has  added  considerable  exporting  to  its  field  in  recent 
years. 

The  illustration  shows  the  C.  H.  Wurst  company  plant,  a 
leader  in  the  sheet  metal  trade  of  the  city,  the  Gem  City  File  works, 
a  substantial  industry,  and  the  A.  Wiebmer  Machine  shop,  one  of 
the  concerns  which  does  general  machine  work  and  which  within 
recent  years  has  occupied  the  new  building  shown  herewith. 

Efforts  at  the  establishment  of  manufacturing  lines  in  Quincy 
allied  with  the  motor  industry  seem  extremely  likely  to  bear  fruit. 
This  venture  is  a  community  movement  designed  principally  to 
afford  replacements  for  buildings  and  concerns  which  have  been 
affected  by  the  transition  from  the  horse  and  carriage  to  the  motor 
age. 


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Distributing  Our  Products 

a  railway  distributing  center  Quincy  is  the  key  to  a  large 
territory.  There  are  but  two  railroad  systems  centering 
here  but  they  comprise  seven  independently  chartered  lines. 

The  city's  manufacturing  district  divides  itself  roughly  into 
two  zones,  one  lying  along  the  river  front  where  there  is  little  inter- 
ference with  business  activity  by  railway  switching  and  transfers 
and  the  other  to  the  northeast  of  the  city  in  what  is  known  as  the 
Walton  Heights  district.  For  this  reason  freight  transfers  cause 
little  annoyance  and  facilitate  the  work  of  the  transportation  lines. 

The  Burlington  enters  the  city  by  a  somewhat  circuitous  route 
from  the  north  and  east  and  its  Missouri  lines  go  direct  to  the  bridge 
leaving  the  city  proper  almost  entirely  free  from  dangerous  grade 
crossings.  The  Wabash  enters  the  city  from  the  southwest  along 
the  river  front  and  maintains  yards  and  shop  facilities  practically 
outside  the  city.  The  Burlington  yardage  in  Quincy  is  extensive 
but  as  It  covers  several  miles  along  the  river  front  it  is  hard  to  vis- 
ualize it  in  a  single  picture. 

Quincy  maintains  a  freight  bureau  for  her  shippers,  jobbers  and 
manufacturers  and  is  frequently  a  meeting  pwint  for  traffic  officials 
of  the  important  western  railway  lines. 

An  interesting  venture  in  the  use  of  river  barges  for  shipping 
IS  soon  to  be  undertaken  in  bringing  sand  and  gravel  from  beds  near 
LaGrange,  Mo.,  for  reshipment  by  rail  from  a  depot  located  on  the 
river  front.  This  is  a  local  development  of  the  plan  devised  during 
post-war  years  for  carrying  coal  from  Southern  Illinois  fields  to  the 
upper  river  and  ore  from  the  North  to  smelters  in  the  middle  states. 

Renewed  interest  is  being  taken  each  year  in  river  shipping 
and  the  success  of  the  barge  experiment  on  established  federal  lines 
south  of  St.  Louis  is  a  fore-runner  of  its  extension  to  upper  river 
points  which  will  mean  much  to  Quincy  in  a  transportation  way. 
New  types  of  barge  are  being  built  for  this  experiment  on  the  upper 
river. 


Growth  of  Oil  Business 


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HE  development  of  the  oil  business  in  Quincy  has  matched 
the  development  of  motor  transportation.  In  twenty  years 
it  has  grown  to  property  holding  of  considerable  dimensions 

Quincy  largely  because  of  its  central  location  in  a  territory 
that  is  without  other  large  cities  has  naturally  assumed  a  position 
as  distributing  center  in  the  oil  trade.  There  are  between  fifty 
and  seventy-five  filling  stations  occupying  advantageous  locations 
and  dozens  of  curb-service  points  scattered  th;oughout  the  city. 

Two  of  the  oil  concerns,  the  Standard  and  the  Richardson 
Lubricating  company,  occupy  locations  in  an  industrial  district 
where  necessary  side-track  facilities  are  to  be  had.  A  third,  the 
National  Refining  company,  has  a  fine  location  north  of  the  city. 

All  of  Quincy's  oil  concerns  do  a  large  jobbing  and  tank 
wagon  service  to  outside  points  and  a  large  part  of  the  trade 
comes  from  Missouri  points.  The  Quincy  oil  companies  and 
branches  distribute  their  products  over  a  territory  that  leaps 
the  boundaries  of  a  dozen  states. 

One  of  the  largest  of  the  independent  companies  maintains 
a  force  of  more  than  thirty  salesmen  and  the  plant  gives  support 
to  nearly  a  hundred  families  with  a  payroll  yearly  of  almost  six- 
figures. 

Petroleum  products  of  all  kinds  enter  largely  into  this 
growing  business  in  the  distributive  field.  One  of  the  Quincy 
oil  concerns  specializes  to  a  large  extent  on  its  grease  and  lubricat- 
ing products. 

The  Standard  maintains  district  offices  in  Quincy  and  at 
gatherings  of  its  field  and  sales  forces  several  hundred  men  are 
drawn  to  the  city.  Quincy  has  also  been  honored  by  a  visit 
from  the  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Standard  Oi 
company  of  Indiana  which  includes  the  city  and  immediate  terri 
tory  in  its  sales  field. 


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Two  Large  Industries 

VHE  showcase  and  phonograph  industries  in  Quincy  are 
closely  allied.  Out  of  a  well-established  showcase  factory 
grew   the  present  woodworking   industry   which    today 

gives  support  to  about  three  hundred  and  tw^enty-five  families 

and  has  an  annual  payroll  of  $350,000. 

The  trade  territory  of  one  concern,  the  Wolf  Manufacturing 
company,  now  extends  to  all  parts  of  the  United  States  and 
Canada.  It  divides  its  forces  between  two  large  plants  in  one 
of  which  the  manufacture  of  saddlery  and  leather  supplies  was 
once  a  profitable  venture.  As  the  phonograph  is  largely  a  cabinet 
making  task  calling  for  skilled  woodworkers  the  adaptation  of  the 
Knittel  showcase  plant  and  its  machinery  to  the  new  use  was  not 
difficult. 

The  illustrations  show  the  two  plants  maintained  by  the 
Wolf  company  from  which  their  products  go  to  all  parts  of  the 
United  States. 

Showcase  manufacturing  is  carried  on  by  the  Quincy  Show- 
case works  which  furnishes  support  for  about  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  families  in  normal  business  periods  and  has  an  annual 
payroll  of  almost  $200,000. 

This  concern  supplies  showcases  and  fixtures  for  drug  stores, 
candy  stores,  cigar  stores,  dry  goods,  jewelry,  millinery,  clothing 
and  department  stores.  Its  products  go  all  over  the  United 
States  but  much  valuable  business  has  been  obtained  in  the 
Southwest  with  the  recent  rapid  development  of  that  section. 

Quincy  showcases  and  store  fixtures  have  always  had  the 
stamp  of  character  and  grade  due  largely  to  the  fact  that  the  city 
has  for  years  been  recognized  as  a  center  of  the  woodworkers 
skill. 

The  illustrations  show  the  central  plant  of  the  Quincy 
Showcase  works  and  an  auxilliary  factory  recently  taken  over. 


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On  Modern  Motor  Roads 

CONTINUOUS  hard  road  activity  around  Quincy  has  been 
followed  by  the  introduction  of  bus  Hne  service  to  a  number  of 
nearby  points. 

The  Quincy-Mt.  Sterling  service  is  already  in  operation  and  makes 
regular  scheduled  trips  daily  between  the  two  county  seats. 

Incorporation  papers  have  been  granted  for  similar  bus  lines  to 
operate  between  Quincy  and  Pittsfield,  Carthage  and  Canton,  Mo., 
respectively.  The  Quincy-Hannibal  service  has  been  in  operation  for 
several  months  and  proposed  extensions  of  this  service  to  Missouri 
points  will  follow  the  building  of  the  highways. 

Illinois  was  first  in  the  field  with  a  bond  issue  for  hard  road  build- 
ing and  has  renewed  her  faith  in  hard-surfaced  roads  by  a  second  and 
larger  bond  issue  authorized  in  the  election  of  1924.  Missouri  ap- 
proved a  sixty  million  dollar  bond  issue  in  1922  and  authorized  a  gasoline 
tax  and  larger  license  fees  in  1924  to  speed  up  her  road  building  program. 
To  each  state  a  liberal  allowance  is  made  from  the  federal  highway 
appropriation  for  the  construction  of  through  federal  routes. 

Hard  road  construction  out  of  Quincy  involves  the  completion  of 
routes  to  Carthage  and  Pittsfield  with  a  direct  road  through  Liberty  to 
Jacksonville  and  a  route  north  along  the  river  ending  opposite  Ft.  Mad- 
ison. The  eastern  connection  to  Springfield  is  to  be  completed  in  1925 
with  the  construction  of  a  few  miles  involving  gaps  where  right  of  way 
matters  have  delayed  road  building. 

There  is  a  large  amount  of  trucking  over  these  completed  routes 
and  regularly  estabhshed  freight  service  in  and  out  of  Quincy  is  ex- 
pected to  follow  the  completion  of  road  building  efforts.  A  central 
passenger  station  for  bus  lines  centering  in  Quincy  is  already  being 
planned  with  future  provisions  for  freight  service  when  the  truck 
service  is  thoroughly  organized. 

Quincy  is  one  of  the  few  cities  m  Illinois  which  reaped  a  hundred 
per  cent  benefit  from  the  building  of  hard  roads  because  of  rail  trans- 
portation service  which  was  limited  in  scope  and  because  she  has  lacked 
entirely  any  interurban  service. 


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I NCY  with  its  one  hundred  and  seven  major  manu- 
facturing industries  is  the  "largest  producer  and  for- 
warder of  railway  tonnage  per  capita  in  the  state  of 


This  will  indicate  in  a  sentence  the  great  development 
made  during  the  growth  of  Quincy  along  manufacturing  lines. 

A  recent  compilation  of  Quincy 's  industries  and  com- 
irison  with  other  manufacturing  centers  outside  the  Chicago 
ind  East  St.  Louis  zones  shows  that  Quincy  is  easily  the  leader 
of  all  Illinois  cities  in  this  respect. 

Of  Its  two  railway  lines  the  Burlington  alone  takes  rev' 
^nues   of  two  million  dollars  annually  from  Quincy   and  dis- 
urscs  a  quarter  of  that  amount  in  pay-rolls. 

In  several  manufacturing  lines,  notably  stoves,  elevators, 
dyes,  power  pumps,  rough  paper,  poultry  feed  and  fine  show- 
cases and  store  fixtures,  Quincy  is  one  of  the  leading  cities  in 
the  entire  country. 

The  Michelmann  company  whose  plant  is  shown  in  the 
ustration  is  one  of  the  large  fabricators  of  steel  and  competes 
with  large  St.  Louis  and  Kansas  City  concerns. 

The  Quincy  Elevator  Gate  company  represents  a  de- 
velopment from  the  general  manufacturing  line  of  freight  and 
passenger  elevators,  for  which  Quincy  has  been  recognized  as 
a  focal  point. 

The  Buerkin  and  Kaempen  building  is  the  mill  maintained 
by  a  Quincy  general  contracting  firm. 

The  Quincy  Compressor  company  is  the  youngest  con- 
cern in  that  field  in  the  city. 

Most  of  the  major  industries  of  the  city  began  in  a  small 
way  and  left  outgrown  plants  behind  when  they  moved  to  one 
of  the  city's  industrial  districts. 


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Adapting  To  Modern  Needs 

APID   adaptability   is   one   characteristic  of  Quincy  as 
a  manufacturing  city. 

The  illustrations  show  four  concerns,  one  occupy 
ing  a  plant  once  occupied  by  a  brewery  and  another  an 
old  stove  foundry. 

This  foundry  now  produces  hog  and  poultry  yard  supplies 
made  with  lightning-like  rapidity  by  machines  out  of  sheet 
metal  and  the  old  brewery  produces  hog  and  stock  remedies. 

Three  of  the  four  plants  are  now  engaged  in  manufacturing 
lines  dependent  principally  on  an  agricultural  market.  The 
extensive  development  of  poultry  raising  has  also  brought 
additions  to  the  local  manufacturing  field. 

The  distribution  of  these  products  is  made  largely  through 
jobbers  and  by  mail  direct  to  the  consumer,  a  large  and  in- 
creasing business  which  does  not  leave  its  imprint  on  the 
community  in  a  direct  way  but  is  a  material  factor  in  its  pros- 
perity. 

The  accompanying  illustrations  show  the  plant  of  the 
Mit-Shell  Stamping  company,  where  hog  and  poultry  yard 
supplies  are  manufactured,  the  H.  M.  Sheer  company  plant, 
where  oil  burners,  brooders,  incubators  and  similar  devices 
for  the  poultry  trade  are  made,  the  Huck  Manufacturing  com- 
pany plant  which  is  producing  store  and  bank  fixtures  and 
school  desks  and  the  plant  of  the  Illinois  Stock  Medicine 
company,  engaged  in  manufacturing  and  compounding  stock 
foods  and  remedies. 

The  page  in  itself  is  further  evidence  of  the  thorough 
diversity  of  the  manufacturing  interests  of  Quincy. 

Many  of  these  smaller  industrial  plants  have  side-track 
connections  and  hold  the  possibility  of  extensive  development 
as  their  trade  demands  grow. 


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PA1'1'!R    111    Its    varied   uses  plays  no  small   part   m  Quincy's 
industrial  life.    The  center  of  the  industry  is  represented  by 
the  two  paper  mills  which  produce  strawboard  and  chip  of 
varn)us  types  for  a  variety  of  purposes. 

Another  branch  of  this  general  paper  industry  is  represented 
111  the  printing  and  binding  trades. 

Still  a  third  is  represented  by  the  Quincy  Paper  Box  company 
which  manufactures  candy,  shirt,  shoe  and  jewelry  boxes  for  con- 
cerns in  Illinois  and  seven  surrounding  states.  The  concern  also 
tills  special  orders  for  boxes. 

The  Irwin  Paper  company  is  a  large  jobbing  concern  which 
finds  a  market  for  its  products  in  Illinois,  Iowa  and  Missouri  and 
furnishes  support  for  about  sixty  families. 

Still  another  development  of  this  general  paper  industry  found 
in  Quincy  is  the  photo  engraving  trade,  represented  by  the  Quincy 
Photo  Engraving  company.  This  concern  furnishes  illustrations 
tor  much  of  the  book  and  catalogue  work  produced  by  Quincy 
printing  concerns. 

These  industries  with  the  major  manufacturing  lines  give 
employment  to  several  hundred  wage-earners. 

It  is  to  paper,  both  in  its  manufacture  and  varied  uses,  that 
Quincy  is  indebted  for  considerable  of  her  industrial  prosperity. 

Quincy  has  been  the  birthplace  of  several  important  poultry 
and  agricultural  publications,  which  furnished  healthy  stimulants 
to  the  general  paper  and  printing  industries.  These  publications 
covered  a  wide  territory.  Engraving  work  done  in  Quincy  commands 
a  market  whose  range  is  a  hundred  miles  either  way  in  Illinois  and 
Missouri.  Many  of  the  catalogues  for  local  industries  are  the  pro- 
ducts of  Quincy  printing  plants. 


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Carrying  On  Our  Own  Business 


UNICIPAL    ownership   and   operation   of  public   utilities   has 
achieved  notable  advances  in  Quincy. 

The  principal  effort  in  that  direction  has  been  the  water 
works  plant  which  was  taken  over  from  private  hands  a  number  of  years 
.it;o  and  finally  cleared  of  all  indebtedness  in  the  last  few  years.  As 
the  plant  stands  it  is  one  of  the  best  water  systems  in  the  entire  country 
and  with  some  improvements  already  outlined  will  furnish  a  wholesome 
supply  for  a  city  of  60,000  persons. 

The  supply  is  taken  from  the  river  and  is  practically  inexhaustible. 
The  water  is  first  treated  in  a  filtration  plant  at  the  river  front  and  pumped 
to  the  large  Walton  Heights  reservoir  where  it  is  distributed  to  consumers. 
An  auxilliary  reservoir  furnishes  pressure  for  the  immediate  district.  An 
improvement  recently  added  to  the  plant  equipment  has  been  the  smaller 
emergency  reservoir  near  the  filtration  plant  which  will  make  possible 
repairs  and  renovation  of  the  large  reservoir  itself  and  furnish  an  additional 
supply  in  case  of  need.  The  water  works  plant  is  under  the  management 
of  a  citizens  commission  nominally  under  the  control  of  the  mayor  and  city 
council  but  in  fact  entirely  independent  of  city  control. 

A  second  municipal  venture  is  the  city  quarry  which  is  now  under 
lease  to  a  contracting  firm.  It  has  supplied  much  of  the  stone  for  road 
work  in  the  vicinity.     This  supply  of  limestone  is  practically  inexhaustible. 

During  the  last  year  the  city  incinerator  has  been  put  in  operation  as 
,1  scijntific  and  economic  solution  of  the  garbage  disposal  question  which 
presented  itself  with  the  adoption  of  the  health  district  act. 

The  boat  landing  and  house  shown  in  the  illustration  is  another  city- 
owned  venture.  Much  of  the  river  front  property  has  been  retained  by 
Quincy  in  the  event  of  a  generous  revival  of  river  traffic  and  is  occupied  by 
private  concerns  under  leases  at  the  present  time. 

During  the  year  contracts  have  been  let  for  lining  and  covering  the 
large  reservoir  at  Walton  Heights,  a  bond  issue  for  the  purpose  being 
approved  by  voters  at  the  April  election.  This  improvement  means  the 
expenditure  of  more  than  $200,000  and  insures  Quincy  a  wholesome  supply 
of  water  for  years  to  come.  Bonds  to  cover  this  improvement  met  with 
a  ready  sale  in  financial  centers. 


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The  four  building  and 
loan  associations  of 
^uincy  have  resources 
of  three  million  dol' 
lars.  All  are  expand'  -■<' 
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a  growth  of  $2  ^0,000 
in  resources  in  7923. 

The  four  associations 
have  financed  more 
new  homes  during  the 
last  year  than  at  any 
time  heretofore. 


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The  Power  Behind  Our  Industry 

QUINCY  was  one  of  the  first  cities  of  the  Upper  Mississippi 
valley  to  become  a  steady  and  constant  patron  of  hydro- 
^  power,  supplied  from  the  dam  at  Keokuk  forty  miles  away. 
This  current  is  used  almost  exclusively  in  her  industrial  plants, 
furnishes  power  for  the  street  car  system  and  the  major  portion  of 
the  illumination  that  marks  Quincy  as  one  of  the  "best  lighted" 
cities  in  the  United  States. 

This  hydro-electric  power  makes  it  possible  for  the  city  to 
embrace  a  large  industrial  district  which  is  almost  entirely  free  from 
the  smoke  nuisance. 

The  street  car  system  is  one  of  the  most  thorough  and  compact 
of  the  properties  now  embraced  in  the  Illinois  Power  and  Light 
corporation.  It  serves  both  residence  and  factory  districts  as  well 
as  parks  and  recreation  resorts.  The  car  average  for  the  Quincy 
system  is  about  60,000  miles  a  year.  In  operation  the  system  is 
among  the  most  economical  in  the  country,  using  less  than  eight- 
tenths  kilowatt  per  mile. 

Birney  cars  have  been  m  use  on  the  system  for  several  years 
and  the  transition  to  motor  power  has  brought  buses  as  a  substitute 
on  several  of  the  residence  lines. 

New  connections  which  have  just  been  made  will  make  Quincy 
certain  of  her  power  supply.  A  new  circuit  has  been  built  to  the 
Keokuk  sub-station  at  Hull  and  through  the  Central  Illinois  Public 
Service  company's  lines  a  supply  of  power  is  also  assured  from  the 
plant  in  Central  Illinois. 

Smokestacks  that  belch  forth  soot  and  dirt  are  now  a  rather 
uncommon  thing  in  both  industrial  districts  of  the  city.  Use  of  this 
"white  coal"  has  assisted  in  the  general  tidying  up  of  the  city's 
manufacturing  zones. 


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Elevators  and  Shoes 

Freight  and  passenger  elevators  produced  by  the  Otis  and  Hollister- 
Whitney  plants  invade  foreign  territory. 

The  Morris  Brothers  Shoe  company  established  its  plant  in  ^uincy 
about  twelve  years  ago.  Though  one  of  the  youngest  of  local  industrial 
concerns  it  now  gives  support  to  about  two  hundred  hands. 


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stores  have  annual  pay- 
roll disbursements  of 
$238,247.55  according 
to  figures  furnished  by 
the  retailers  associa- 
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events  attract  store 
patrons  withm  a  radius 
of  seventyfive  miles. 


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Partial  List  of  Articles  Manufactured  in  Quincy 


AiilonKihilr   Shock   Absorbers. 

Vutonntbilf  Sprlnfis. 

\\Milni>s  and  Tents  of  all  kinds  and  sizes. 

Itaked  C;oods  Bread  (all  kindsn  Box  Cakes,  Cakes,  Cookies, 
Pastry    all  kinds'. 

Halinfi    Cresses     Belt,   Hand.   Horse  and   Motor  Power. 

Hariles.  Row  B<iats,  Skiffs,  Hl)lh  Speed  Motor  Boats  and  Hydro- 
planes. 

Ilarrels    all  kindsi. 

Baskets  (all  kinds'. 

BeveraficsDe- Alcoholized  Beer,  Malt-Extract,  Old  CJinfier 
Beer,    Refined  Cider,   Soda,   Carbonated   Waters. 

Boiler  Mountinfts. 

Books  Commercial  Text  Books,  Blank  Books  and  Binding, 
Special  Ruled  Books  of  all  kinds.  Envelopes. 

Box  Board  for  all  jirades  of  boxes. 

Boxes  lall  kindsi. 

Bras.s  Castintis  (all  types). 

Bridftes     Steel. 

Bus  Bodies. 


ets  for  vapor  and  hot  air  baths  at  home, 
>s.  Clushions  for  operatinft  chair-tables. 
s.   Sanitary   Back  Rests,    Window   Tents, 


Cabinets  Bath  Cablr 
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Candies  ^ail  kinds'. 

Canning  Outfits. 

Carrlanes. 

t:ereals     Corn  flakes.  Fruited  Oats  and  Wheat. 

Ciftars  and  Manufactured  Tobaccos  of  all  types. 

Ci>iar  Boxes. 

Clothinft  Work  Clothinft.  Cotton  Shirts,  Flannel  Shirts, 
Mens  and  Bov's  Garments,  Moleskin,  Khaki,  Buckskin 
and  Cordurov"  Pants,  Blanket-Lined  Coats,  Union-Alls 
for  men  and  boys.  Skirts  (wool,  worsted  and  silk).  Ladies' 
and  Misses'  Hats  and  Aprons. 

Coal  Tar  and  .Ammoniacal  Liquor. 

CoBins,  C:offin  Boxes  and  Indertakcrs'  Supplies. 

Coke. 

Common  and   Face  Brick. 

C:ompressors  Sinijlc  Stafte  Vertical,  Two'  Sta(>e  Horizontal, 
Siniile  Stafte  Htirizontai,  Team  Actuated  and  Motor  Driven. 

Compressors  (all  sizes  and  types). 

Confectionery — <:andy  of  all  kinds.  Ice  Cream,  Ices  and  Sher- 
bets, Fancy  Moulds,  Paper  Bafts. 

Creamery    Products— Butter,    Pasteurized    Milk,    Ice   Cream. 

Corruftated  Fibre  Board  Containers. 

Cultivators. 

Dies    for  all  industrial  work). 
Disinfectants     Paint  Remover. 
Dolls  and  Children's  Toys. 

Dyes.  etc.  Fadeless  Dyes,  Gildinft  Paint,  CJIycerated  .Asafoetida, 
Liquid  Bluing. 

F.ftft  Carriers. 

Kftft  Case  Fillers. 

Electricity. 

Elevators,  etc. — Freight,  Passenger,  Freiftht  Elevator  Gates, 
Power  Operating  Devices  for  freight  elevator  gates.  Power 
Operating  Devices  for  elevator  doors.  Cable  Locks  for 
elevators.  Electric  Operators  for  large  doors. 

Elevator  Cabs,  etc. 

Engines     Gas  and  Steam. 

Engravings     Photo  Engravings  of  all  types. 

Eucalyptus  Menthol  Ointment. 

Exhaust  Steam. 

Extract  (Food  Flavors). 


Fencing     Wood  and  Wire. 

Fibre  .Shipper  Containers. 

Files  (all  kinds). 

Fireless  Cookers. 

Flour  Soft  Wheat,  Hard  Wheat,  Selfrlsing,  Graham,  Buck- 
wheat, Rye  and  Corn  Meal. 

Furnaces  for  wood,  coal  or  for  wood  or  coal   (pipeless). 

Furniture,  etc.— Office,  Bank  and  Store  Fixtures,  Kitchen 
Furniture,  C^anning  Outfits,  Show  Cases,  School  Desks 
and  Window  Display  Fixtures. 


Gas. 

Gasoline  Filling  Pumps. 
Glasses,  Spectacles  and  Optical  Goods. 
Greases  and  Oils  — t^up,   .Axle,  Cable,  (Graphite,  Tran 
Skid,  Hard  and  Solid  Oil. 


Hardware  Store  Equipment  and  Fixtures — Ash  Stands,  Brush 
Display  Cabinets,  Builders'  Hardware  and  Tool  Cabinets, 
Nail  Bin  and  Wall  Case  Bases,  Wall  and  Gun  Cases,  Nail 
Bin,  Gun,  Display  and  Wrapping  Counters,  Open  Shelving, 
Bolt  Pins,  Paint  Shelving,  Screw  Cases,  Display  and  Vise 
Tables. 

Harness  Specialties — Harness,  Horse  and  Mule  Collars,  Saddles, 
Sole  Leather,  Shoe  Findings,  Sweat  Pads,  etc. 

Harrows — Disc  and  Drag. 

Hay-Presses. 

Hearse  Bodies  and  Hearses. 

Heaters — Soft  Coal,  C:omblnatlon  (coal  or  wood).  Hot  Blast 
(coal  or  wood),  School  Room  (coal  or  wood). 


Ice. 

Ice  Machinery. 

Incubators,  Brooders,  etc.— Hot  Water,  Hot  Air  and  Electric 
Incubators,  Indoor  and  Outdoor  Brooders,  Stock  Food 
Cookers,  Non-Freezing,  Reliable  Galvanized,  Hanging  and 
Knock-Down  Self-Feeding  Drinking  Fountains.  Egg  C:ab- 
inets.  Metallic  Brood  Coops,  Egg  Carriers,  Blue  Flame 
Wickless  Oil  Heaters  for  incubators  and  brooders.  Lice 
Killing  Machines,  Oats  Sprouters,  Automatic  Feeder  and 
Exerciser,  Metallic  and  Spring  Poultry  Feed  Troughs, 
Spring  Lever  Poultry  Punch,  X-Ray  Egg  Testers,  Auto- 
matic Grit  Boxes. 

Iron  Castings   (all   types). 

Iron  Grill  Work  and  Screening. 


Lime,  etc.— High  t:alcium  Lime,  Crushed  and  Fluxing  St 
Agricultural  Limestone,  Rip  R.lp. 

Lumber— Mill  Work  of  all  kinds. 

Mantels,  Grates  and  Fireplaces. 

Manufactured  Furs. 

Mattresses  (all  kinds). 

Meats,  Sausages  and  Hams. 

Merry-Go- Rounds. 

Metal  Weather  Strips. 

Metal    Work   for    Banks   and    Offices— Elevator   Cabs   and    Er 
closures.     Safety     Deposit     Boxes, ^Hollow     Bronze     Door: 
Wire    Work    for    Window    Guards,    Bar    Window    Guards, 
Metal  Grills,     Wickets  and  Cages,     Safety  Deposit    CJrills, 
C:ornice  and   Desk  Signs,    Wicket   Number  Plates,   Bionze 
t^ounter  Screens. 

Mineral  Water. 

Monuments,  Headstones,  Mausoleums. 

Motors— Electric  up  to  15  H.  P.;  Electric  Control  and  Switch 
Boards. 


ckel  Plating  and  Enamelling. 

in-Expanding    .Aluminum    ,\lloy    Pistons   for    Internal   O 
bustion  Engines. 


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Office  Equipment — Blank  Books,  Broadsides,  Catalogs,  Edition 
Books,  Loose  Leaf  Records,  Pamphlets,  Office  Stationery, 
Straw  Paper,  Paper  Boies,  Envelopes  (all  kinds;,  Rubber 
Stamps. 

Oil  Burners. 

Optical  Goods — Spectacles,  Eye-Glasses,  Auto  Goggles,  Lorg- 
nettes. 

Patterns — Wood  and  Metal,  for  tools,  dies,  furnaces,  stoves  and 
machinery. 

Pen  Holders. 

Phonographs. 

Photographs,  etc.— Commercial  Photographs,  Color  Plates, 
Pen  Drawings,  Retouch  Photographs,  Zinc  Etchings, 
Newtones,   Two,  Three  and   Four  Color   Process  Plates. 

Pickles  and  Vinegar. 

Picture  Frames. 

Plows  (walking  and  riding). 

Plumber  Specialties — Refrigerator  Drains,  Cesspools,  Slop 
Sinks,  P.  and  S.  Traps.  Bottle  and  Drum  Traps,  Drum 
Trap  Ells,  Float  Valves,  Trap  Screw  Ferrules,  Bar  Strainers, 
Soil  Pipe  Basket  Grates,  Soil  Oil  Pipe  Vent  Caps,  Soil  Pipe 
Rests,  Iron  Thimbles,  Drive  Ferrules,  Sink  Brackets,  Tub 
Legs,  Boiler  Stands.  Sink  Couplings.  Soap  Dishes,  Sink 
Strainers,  Air  t:hambers  for  iron  sinks,  Plate  and  Beam 
Hooks,  Solder  Pots,  Solder  Molds,  Pouring  Ladles,  Ring 
Hangers,  Expansion  Pipe  Hangers.  Floor  Flanges.  Celling 
Plates,  Meter  Housings,  Manhole  Frames  and  Covers. 
Sewage  Frames  and  Cover,  Sewage  Siphons  and  Grates. 
Bath  Tubs,  Lavatories,  Lavatory  Trays,  Heating  Boilers, 
Radiators  and  Plpe-Sewer  Pipes,  Hose  Sheet  and  Coll 
Packings,  Leather  Rubber  and  Cotton  Belting,  Oilers, 
Grease  Cups,  Lubricators,  etc..  Valves  ol  all  kinds.  Thread 
Pipe. 

Poultry  Feeds— High  Protein  Egg  Scratch,  Egg  and  Growing 
Mash  and   Chick  Scratch  and   Poultry   Bone. 

Poultry  Supplies. 

Pumps— Duplex  Steam,  Duplex  Power,  Pumps  to  handle  all 
liquids.  Oil  Field.  Sugar  Mill,  Air  Lift,  Dry  Vacuum  and 
C:entrifugal  Pumps,  Throttling  Engine  Governors,  Speed 
and  Pressure  Regulators. 


Radio  Equipment — Cabinets 
Ranges  (all  kinds). 
Refrigerators     all    kinds,    in 
the  largest  Institutions. 
Rugs. 


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Sand  and  Gravel. 

Signs  and  Posters. 

Shoes  and  Boots — Shoe  Findings. 

Show  Cases  and  Store  Fixtures. 

Steel    Work— Steel    Lintels.    Girders.    Fire    Escapes,    Side 

Doors,  Coal  Chutes.  Coal  Chute  Doors,  Columns.  Bridges. 

Doors,    Shutters,    Riveted    Pipe,    Stairs,    Window    (iuards. 

Joist  Anchors,  Anchor  Bolts,  Horizontal  Tubular  Boilers, 

Vertical   Boilers,    Pressure  Tanks,    Storage  Tanks,   Smoke 

Stacks,    Breechings,    Oil    Tanks,    Coal    Bins,   Culvert   Pipe 

and  Sheet  Metal  Stamping  of  all  kinds. 
Stock  Medicine,  etc.— Hog,  Steer  and  Sheep  Tonics,  Hog  Oil. 

Tonic  Brick,   Powder  and  Poultry  Dip,   Self   Feeders.   Hog 

Drinking  Fountains,  Sectional  Grain  Fec(lers,Hog  C: 

Mineral    Mixture   for   hogs.    Stock    Dip   : 

Horse,  Cattle,  Sheep  and  Poultry  Powde 
Stove— Coal,   Wood,  Oil,  Electric.  Gas,  GasoUr 
Straw  Paper  for  corrugated  shipping  container 
Straw  Paper  for  fireworks. 
Structural  Iron. 


Tailored  Clothing— Men  and  Women. 

Tire  Patches. 

Tobacco— Cigars  and  Cigar  Boxes,  Plug  and  Smoking  Tobacco- 
Toilet  Preparations. 

Trailers  and  Tractors— Lumber,  Tractor  and  Industrial  Trail- 
ers, Gasoline,  Kerosene  and  Farm  Tractors,  Tractor  .\ttach- 
ments  and  parts.  Reliable  Tumbling  and  Water  Cinder 
Mills. 

Truck  Bodies. 

Trunks  and  Suit  Cases. 


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:  and  Laundry. 


Vacuum  Sweeper 
Vinegar. 


Wagons,  etc. — Heavy  Freight,  Cane  and  Tank  Wagons,  Lumbe 
Boggles,  Wagon  Boxes,  Steel  and  Wood  Axles,  Business  anc 
Farm  Wagons,  Log  and  Lumber  Hauling  Equipment. 

Wheels — Wheels  for  machinery  mountings,  Steel  Wheels  fo 
general  hauling  purposes.  Agricultural  Implement,  Trac 
tion  and  Wagon   Wheels. 

Wood  Sawing  Outfits. 


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